The two barrels were slightly apart. When they fired at the same time, the cannonballs had to spread out to the sides along the entire length of the chain and mow down the enemy soldiers like a scythe of wheat ...

In the second half of 1861, the commander of the northerner fleet, David D. Porter, proposed to the command an original idea: to use 330-mm mortars installed on ships to bombard southerner forts ...

Thanks to the improvement of the technology of making guns, Russian gunsmiths created a new howitzer. The idea belongs to General Feldzheichmeister Count P.I.Shuvalov. And the gunsmiths brought it to life ...

Comparative characteristics of the guns of the Civil War of 1861-1865, which were in service with the southerners and northerners ...

Transitional gun ammunition: from smoothbore Napoleons to the rifled guns of Whitworth, Parrott and Griffen ...

The most perfect Soviet tank destroyer, released during the war, according to a set of characteristics, became the SU-100. Unfortunately, she appeared too late, which did not allow this self-propelled gun to the full ...

What was this weapon massively used by both sides of the conflict? Caliber 3,0 inches (76 mm). The gun barrel weighed 820 pounds (371,9 kg), and fired a shell weighing 9,5 pounds (4,3 kg) ...

In the United States, there is a national registry of surviving artillery pieces of the Civil War era, which records all the guns that have survived to this day, their locations and surviving numbers and hallmarks ...

Not so long ago, for the first time, the TOS-2 Tosochka new heavy flamethrower system was openly shown. Now the details of the work, the current stage of the project and plans for the future become known ...

Brook's guns were structurally simple. They had a conical muzzle and a cylindrical breech. The trunks were made of cast iron. Viard has developed two unique guns that could become ...

Let's talk about rifled and smooth-bore guns used by the warring parties in the US Civil War ...

The literature often gives high marks on the anti-tank capabilities of the SU-152 and ISU-152. But the authors, extolling the damaging effect of a 152-mm projectile when exposed to enemy armored vehicles, ...

One of the most interesting results of Soviet-Vietnamese military cooperation was the Grad-P product. It was a light reactive system, unified with a full-sized MLRS "Grad" ...

A story about the guns of Robert Parker Parrott. October 1, 1861, he patented the design of the gun, which had a wrought iron bandage worn on its breech. A unique feature ...

In the initial period of the war, Soviet tanks of new types had an advantage in security and firepower. But after the enemy appeared new heavy tanks and self-propelled guns, the situation was not in favor of the USSR ...

Original and bold technical solutions can not only improve the characteristics of the equipment, but also make it too complicated. This is what decided the fate of the project self-propelled guns "Object 416" ...

Ukraine has created a new self-propelled mortar and now cannot use it. All the Bars-8MMK vehicles built are idle idle and have unclear prospects ...

The Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish armies have chosen different solutions to meet the needs for self-propelled 155-mm artillery systems with 52-caliber barrels ...

The Soviet self-propelled gun SU-122, armed with a "self-propelled" modification of the 122 mm M-30 howitzer, was not very successful, and therefore its serial production did not last long. In April 1944, the series went ...

Soviet self-propelled artillery installations, armed with 76,2 mm caliber guns, made a significant contribution to the victory over Nazi Germany. But by the time the mass production of the SU-76 was established ...

As of June 22, 1941, the Red Army had a very small number of self-propelled artillery installations, and their anti-tank potential was low ...

On May 30, 1960, by resolution of the Council of Ministers, work on the project of the anti-tank self-propelled gun "Object 120" / SU-152 / "Taran" was terminated. The reason for this was the progress in the field of anti-tank missile weapons ...

Antique cannon with a bore of the barrel channel. What kind of gun is this, who created it? ...

The armed forces received the first batch of 2S35 “Coalition-SV” interspecies artillery complex. In the near future, this equipment will go into mass production ...